| Year | Laureate | Institution | Citation |
| 2010 | | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Awarded "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the fields of surfaces and interfaces, adhesion, pattern formation, nanocomposites, materials science, and hydrodynamics, which have practical applications in such areas as energy storage, filtration, micro-electro-mechanical systems and optoelectronics." |
| 2011 | | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Awarded "for his work in the fields of evolutionary multi-objective optimization and genetic algorithms." |
| 2012 | | National Chemical Laboratory | Awarded "for his incisive contributions in molecular tailoring of stimuli responsive smart polymeric gels; exploring the anomalous behavior of rheologically complex fluids, and for building the bridge between macromolecular dynamics and polymer processing." |
| 2013 | | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | Awarded "for his wide-ranging contributions to nanoscale electronics, for integrating chemistry with mechanics and electronics to invent new functional devices, and for innovation and entrepreneurship in creating technologies and products of societal value." |
| 2014 | | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded "for being a pioneer in the design and optimization of database engines that form the core of modern enterprise information systems. His many contributions have found direct use in various types of databases including decision‑support, biological and multilingual databases, as well as produced software tools for query optimization and metadata processing." |
| 2015 | | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | Awarded "for his innovative use of first- principles theories and modeling in insightful investigations of microscopic mechanisms responsible for specific properties of specific materials such as topological insulators, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and 2-dimensional materials like graphene." |
| 2016 | | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded "for his seminal work in complex fluids and complex flows and especially in transition and turbulence in soft-walled tubes and channels." |
| 2017 | | Indian Statistical Institute | Awarded "for her scholarly record in algorithmic optimization and for its significant impact on biological data analysis. Her discoveries include a genetic marker for breast cancer, determination of co-occurrence of HIV and cancers and the role of white matter in Alzheimer's disease." |
| 2018 | | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Awarded "for his work on the design of novel biosensors based on his research in biochemistry and gaseous sensors that push the performance limits of existing metal-oxide sensors. The prize recognizes his efforts to build a state-of-the-art infrastructure for research and talent training in nanoscale systems and for developing technologies for space and national security applications." |
| 2019 | Sunita Sarawagi | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | Awarded "for her research in databases, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing, and for important applications of these research techniques." |
| 2020 | Hari Balakrishnan | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Awarded "for his broad contributions to computer networking, his seminal work on mobile and wireless systems." |
| 2021 | Chandrasekhar Nair | Molbio Diagnostics | Awarded for "his development and large-scale commercialization of Truenat, a new point-of-care testing platform for PCR-based medical diagnostics. Dr. Nair’s work has enabled testing for millions of COVID-19 cases across resource-limited settings in India and the diagnosis of multiple infectious diseases including tuberculosis all over the world." |
| 2022 | Suman Chakraborty | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | Awarded for "his pioneering work in elucidating the interaction of fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, and electromechanics at the micro- and nanoscale. Using this understanding he has helped to advance healthcare in resource-limited settings through the invention of novel low-cost medical devices for sensing, diagnostics and therapeutics." |
| 2023 | Sachchida Nand Tripathi | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Awarded "for the deployment of large-scale sensor-based air quality network and mobile laboratory for hyper local measurements of pollution, data generation and analysis using AI+ML for effective air quality management and citizen awareness, and for the discovery of new pathways of aerosols formation and growth that provide mechanistic understanding of haze formation." |
| 2024 | Shyam Gollakota | University of Washington | Awarded "for his impactful research and technology translation spanning multiple engineering domains in societally relevant areas such as smart-phone based affordable healthcare tools for low- and middle-income countries, battery-free computing and communication, and augmentation of human auditory sensing with artificial intelligence." |
| 2025 | Sushant Sachdeva | University of Toronto | Awarded "for his deep insights into mathematical optimization and the resolution of longstanding open questions in algorithmic theory that has established new standards on achievable performance in computational problems affecting information flows across societal lifelines, including the internet, transportation, and communication networks. He is a pioneer in theoretical computer science whose fundamental contributions have profoundly impacted many algorithmic challenges underlying modern society." |
| Year | Laureate | Institution | Citation |
| 2012 | | University of California, Los Angeles | Awarded "for his path-breaking contribution to history. He is an outstanding scholar of early-modern South Asian history. He has been able to develop a new genre of 'connected history,’ involving persons, products, and social and political processes stretching from Melaka in the East to Portugal in the West." |
| 2012 | | University of East Anglia | Awarded "for his imaginative and illuminating writings in literary criticism, which reflect a complex literary sensibility, and great theoretical mastery, along with a probing sense of detail. The Infosys Prize recognizes and celebrates the intellectual reach and the quiet humanity in his extraordinary writings." |
| 2013 | | University of Delhi | Awarded "for her outstanding contribution towards the integration of archaeological knowledge with the historical understanding of India from the earliest times. She is an exceptional scholar of proto-historic and early India. Her wide-ranging work on the past and present illuminates many aspects that include contemporary Indian society." |
| 2013 | | Jawaharlal Nehru University | Awarded "for her exceptional contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics. Her research on syntactic relations in Hindi-Urdu has related wider debates in linguistics to the study of Indian languages and has extended our understanding of India's linguistic diversity." |
| 2014 | | Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access and SpicyIP | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to a broad range of legal issues and legal education. He has been doing this with remarkable fair‑mindedness in assessing opposing positions taken on quintessentially controversial areas, such as intellectual property laws." |
| 2015 | | New York University | Awarded "for his outstanding scholarship and originality in interpreting and scrutinizing analytical Indian Philosophy. He has thrown light on the shared ground as well as the dichotomy between Indian and Greek traditions of philosophical reasoning, thereby illuminating both." |
| 2016 | | Harvard University | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to the history of migration, environmental history, and the history of international public health, and in recognition of his field-changing research on the interrelated past of contemporary Asia." |
| 2017 | | King's College London | Awarded "for her highly original explorations of the long-standing historical elements - conceptual, social and cultural - in colonial modernity, and for her subtle and insightful ethnography of cultural and political life in Kashmir." |
| 2018 | | Jawaharlal Nehru University | Awarded "for her extraordinarily illuminating study of Mughal, Rajput and Deccan art, as well as her insightful writing on the historical function and role of museums and their significance in the increasingly fraught and conflicted social world in which visual culture exists today." |
| 2019 | Manu Devadevan | Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi | Awarded "for his highly original and wide-ranging work on pre-modern South India." |
| 2020 | Prachi Deshpande | Center for Studies in Social Sciences | Awarded "for her extraordinarily nuanced and highly sophisticated treatment of South Asian historiography." |
| 2021 | Ângela Barreto Xavier | University of Lisbon, Portugal | Awarded for "her deeply researched and sophisticated analysis of conversion and violence in the Portuguese empire in India, especially Goa.Her extensive body of writings in both English and Portuguese have shown Xavier to be an important and original voice on colonial and imperial history." |
| 2022 | | National Law School of India University | Awarded for "his insightful understanding of the Indian Constitution, especially his carefully argued account of the importance of the landmark ‘basic structure doctrine’ adopted by the Supreme Court in 1973 that guides and constrains various efforts to amend it, while also ensuring its stability in the face of executive and legislative outcomes in India’s political life. |
| 2023 | | Science Gallery Bengaluru | Awarded for "her brilliant and granular insights into the individual, institutional, and material histories of scientific research in modern India. |
| 2024 | Mahmood Kooria | University of Edinburgh, UK | Awarded for "his truly outstanding and seminal contributions to the study of maritime Islam in a global perspective...". |
| 2025 | Andrew Ollett | University of Chicago | Ollett is the world’s foremost scholar of the Prakrit languages in this generation. His book, Language of the Snakes, is a magisterial analysis of the cultural roles of Prakrit in tandem with Sanskrit and the Indian vernaculars over the last two thousand years. Andrew Ollett’s linguistic mastery and knowledge is breathtaking, ranging from detailed contributions to the study of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Kannada, Tamil, Old Javanese, and Chinese, in addition to his knowledge of the modern European languages and his training in Greek and Latin. |
| Year | Laureate | Institution | Citation |
| 2009 | | National Centre for Biological Sciences | Awarded "for his many contributions as a developmental geneticist and neurobiologist." |
| 2010 | | International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology | Awarded "for his pioneering work in understanding the interactions of the malarial parasite and its host, leading to the development of a viable malaria vaccine." |
| 2011 | | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology | Awarded "for his breakthrough contributions to the basic understanding of clonal seed formation in plants which can be applied to revolutionize agriculture, especially in the developing world." |
| 2012 | | National Centre for Biological Sciences | Awarded "for new insights into regulated cell surface organization and membrane dynamics, necessary for understanding self-organization and trafficking of membrane molecules in living cells, and in signaling between cells." |
| 2013 | | Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology | Awarded "for his work in the field of lipid metabolism in M. tuberculosis. He discovered fatty acyl AMP ligases in tubercle bacillus, their role in the generation of the lipid components of its cell wall and of their existence in other organisms, where they play a role in biosynthesis of complex molecules." |
| 2014 | | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for her significant contributions to our understanding of how the brain's structure and circuitry are formed in the embryo. Her research uncovers common genetic mechanisms that control the development of the hippocampus, cortex and amygdala." |
| 2015 | | International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology | Awarded "for his pioneering contributions towards deciphering the molecular structure, at the atomic level, of key proteins involved in the biology of pathogenesis of the malarial parasite." |
| 2016 | | Translational Health Science and Technology Institute | Awarded "for her pioneering contributions to understanding the natural history of rotavirus and other infectious diseases that are important both globally and in India. Her findings have enormous implications for vaccines and other public health measures to thwart these infections." |
| 2017 | | National Centre for Biological Sciences | Awarded "for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of the brain's computational machinery. His investigations have revealed essential neuronal computations that underlie the ability to acquire, integrate and store complex sensory information, and to utilize that information for decision and action." |
| 2018 | | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for his pioneering work on molecular motor proteins, which are crucial for the functioning of living cells. Mallik has identified and measured forces needed to transport large particles inside cells, and demonstrated their role in fundamental processes such as targeting pathogens for their destruction and moving lipid droplets for fatty acid regulation in the liver." |
| 2019 | Manjula Reddy | Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology | Awarded "for her groundbreaking discoveries concerning the structure of cell walls in bacteria." |
| 2020 | Rajan Sankaranarayanan | Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology | Awarded "for fundamental contributions towards understanding one of the most basic mechanisms in biology, the error-free translation of the genetic code to make protein molecules." |
| 2021 | Mahesh Sankaran | National Center for Biological Sciences, India | Awarded in "recognition of his pioneering work on the ecology of tropical savannah ecosystems, his contributions to highlighting the biodiversity of important Indian ecosystems such as the Western Ghats, and his input to international reports on climate change and biodiversity that have provided scientific evidence to policy makers." |
| 2022 | Vidita Vaidya | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India | Awarded "for her fundamental contributions to understanding brain mechanisms that underlie mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, including signals engaged by the neurotransmitter serotonin in causing persistent changes in behavior induced by early life stress and the role of serotonin in energy regulation in brain cells." |
| 2023 | Arun Kumar Shukla | Indian Institute of Technology, KanpurIIT Kanpur, | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to the biology of G-protein coupled receptors, a key component of cell function. His studies have elegantly illustrated mechanisms that selectively activate signaling pathways downstream of GPCRs. These and other discoveries provide fundamental understanding of the context-dependent functions of GPCRs and suggest a new framework for the design of novel therapeutics." |
| 2024 | Siddhesh Kamat | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune | Awarded "for his discoveries concerning bioactive lipids and their receptors, and their metabolic and signaling pathways. His research using advanced methods to understand the function of lipids, a key component of cells, has important implications for understanding the role of these molecules in a range of cellular functions and human diseases." |
| 2025 | Anjana Badrinarayanan | National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore | Awarded "for her pioneering contributions to understanding mechanisms of genome maintenance and repair. Through innovative live-cell imaging combined with genetic and cell biological approaches, her work has revealed fundamental principles of how DNA damage is repaired, demonstrated mutagenesis in non-dividing cells, and identified novel pathways of mitochondrial DNA damage responses, illuminating principles central to life and evolution." |
| Year | Laureate | Institution | Citation |
| 2008 | | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Awarded "for his outstanding contribution in the field of complexity theory, a branch of mathematics and computer science concerned with the study of algorithms for solving mathematical and related scientific problems, and especially their efficiency and running times." |
| 2009 | | Harish-Chandra Research Institute | Awarded "for his fundamental contributions to Mathematical Physics, in particular, to String Theory." |
| 2010 | | University of California, Los Angeles | Awarded "for his fundamental contributions to Number Theory, particularly his solution of the Serre conjecture." |
| 2011 | | Stanford University | Awarded "for his path breaking work in analytic number theory and development of new techniques to study critical values of general zeta functions to prove the Quantum Unique Ergodicity Conjecture for classical holomorphic forms." |
| 2012 | | Princeton University | Awarded "for his extraordinarily original work in algebraic number theory. His work has revolutionized the way in which various fundamental arithmetic objects, such as number fields and elliptic curves, are understood." |
| 2013 | | ETH Zurich | Awarded "for his profound work in algebraic geometry. In particular, for his work on Gromov-Witten theory for Riemann surfaces, for predicting the connection between Gromov-Witten and Donaldson‑Thomas theories, and for his recent work with Aaron Pixton that establishes this connection for Calabi-Yau 3-folds." |
| 2014 | | Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Microsoft Research | Awarded "for his seminal contributions to theoretical computer science, especially in the areas of Probabilistically Checkable Proofs and error‑correcting codes." |
| 2015 | | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology and complex geometry. In particular, for establishing a central conjecture in the Thurston program to study hyperbolic 3-manifolds and introducing important new tools to study fundamental groups of complex manifolds." |
| 2016 | | Stanford University | Awarded "for his exceptionally wide-ranging, foundational and creative contributions to modern number theory. His unique ability to use wide-ranging techniques drawn from analytic number theory, ergodic theory, homotopy theory to address concrete problems in number theory and discover new phenomena attest to the essential unity of mathematics." |
| 2017 | | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to analytic aspects of number theory. Besides ingenious contributions to the Diophantine problem, he has established important estimates known as sub-convexity bounds for a large class of L-functions with methods that are powerful and original." |
| 2018 | | University of Strasbourg | Awarded "for the effective use of entropy in the study of semiclassical limits of eigenstates in quantum analogs of chaotic dynamical systems and for her work on the delocalization of eigenfunctions on large regular graphs." |
| 2019 | Siddhartha Mishra | ETH Zürich | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to Applied Mathematics, in particular for designing computational methods that solve non-linear partial differential equations arising in different areas, analyzing their effectiveness and designing algorithms to implement them." |
| 2020 | Sourav Chatterjee | Stanford University | Awarded "for his groundbreaking work in probability and statistical physics." |
| 2021 | Neeraj Kayal | Microsoft Research | Awarded for "his outstanding contributions to Computational Complexity." |
| 2022 | Mahesh Kakde | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded for "his outstanding contributions to algebraic number theory." |
| 2023 | Bhargav Bhatt | University of Michigan | Awarded for "his outstanding contributions to arithmetic geometry and commutative algebra.". |
| 2024 | Neena Gupta | Indian Statistical Institute | Awarded "for big impact of her work on the closely related fields of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry." |
| 2025 | Sabyasachi Mukherjee | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai | Awarded "for his powerful and original work that links two distinct areas of mathematics—the dynamics of Kleinian group actions and the iteration of holomorphic and anti-holomorphic maps in complex dynamics. His results have reshaped our understanding of conformal dynamics, an area of study that has important implications across physics, fluid dynamics, and even data science." |
| Year | Laureate | Institution | Citation |
| 2009 | | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics | Awarded "for his contribution to a deeper understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of gravity in the context of thermodynamics, and for his work on the large scale structure in cosmology." |
| 2010 | | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for finding an ingenious way to solve two of the most outstanding puzzles of Superstring Theory simultaneously: What is the origin of dark energy of the Universe? Why is there no massless scalar particle?" |
| 2011 | | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded "for his research on various aspects of the collective behaviour of living systems ranging from bacteria to schools of fish in the ocean." |
| 2012 | | National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology | Awarded "for his pioneering development of methods for the construction of supramolecular functional materials, which can be employed as components in organic electronic devices and in powerful substance selective optical sensing and imaging." |
| 2013 | | Institute for Advanced Study and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for his pioneering contributions to the study of string theory, quantum field theory and gravity, and for uncovering a deep connection between the equations of fluid and superfluid dynamics and Einstein's equations of general relativity." |
| 2014 | | Indian Institute of Chemical Technology | Awarded "for his diverse and notable contributions in synthetic organic chemistry with special focus on the synthesis of complex molecules from natural sources. He has devised innovative, practical approaches to pharmaceuticals of current interest to industry." |
| 2015 | | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for his pioneering experimental contributions to the physics of high intensity laser matter interactions. In particular for providing, for the first time, unequivocal evidence of turbulent magnetic fields and the discovery of terahertz frequency acoustic waves, in laser produced hot dense plasmas. These results have significance to testing stellar and astrophysical scenarios." |
| 2016 | | Physical Research Laboratory | Awarded "for his experiments on Chandrayaan-1 and Mars Orbiter missions that revealed new features of solar wind interactions with lunar surface and provided important clues for understanding thermal escape of the Martian atmosphere. He also made very significant contributions in detection and delineation of the nature and origin of planetary X-rays." |
| 2017 | | University of Chicago | Awarded "for her ground-breaking work in the emerging field of architecture of the building blocks of life—the DNA. By successfully manipulating DNA to create biocompatible nanomachines she has created novel ways of interrogating living systems, increasing our knowledge of cell function and getting one step closer to answering unresolved biomedical questions." |
| 2018 | | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded "for his pioneering scientific work in the field of climate change. His studies on black carbon aerosols, the dark, light absorbing, microscopic particles in air which greatly influence the energy balance of the atmosphere over the Indian subcontinent, have enabled a better understanding of the role of these particles on climate change, precipitation, and, human health in the Indian subcontinent." |
| 2019 | Govindasamy Mugesh | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded "for his seminal work in the chemical synthesis of small molecules and nanomaterials for biomedical applications." |
| 2020 | Arindam Ghosh | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded "for his development of atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductors to build a new generation of functional electronic, thermoelectric and optoelectronic devices." |
| 2021 | Bedangadas Mohanty | National Institute of Science Education and Research | Awarded for "investigations of the nuclear force." |
| 2022 | Nissim Kanekar | National Centre for Radio Astrophysics | Awarded "for his study of galaxies in an era, the so-called “high noon” period, in which stars were being formed at a maximum rate." |
| 2023 | Mukund Thattai | National Centre for Biological Sciences | Awarded "for his groundbreaking contributions to evolutionary cell biology." |
| 2024 | Vedika Khemani | Stanford University | Awarded "for her wide ranging and groundbreaking contributions to theoretical and experimental non-equilibrium quantum matter, most notably the discovery of time-crystals." |
| 2025 | Karthish Manthiram | California Institute of Technology | Awarded "for his pioneering work on sustainable electrochemical routes to essential chemicals. His breakthroughs in lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis and oxygen-atom transfer catalysis have transformed our understanding of electrified chemical manufacturing, demonstrating how renewable electricity can drive selective, efficient synthesis of chemicals that are fundamental to agriculture and industry." |
| Year | Laureate | Institution | Citation |
| 2009 | | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Awarded "for his contributions to the economic theory of development, and for his pioneering work in the empirical evaluation of public policy." |
| 2009 | | University of Delhi | Awarded "for her contributions as a historian of ancient and early medieval Indian history." |
| 2010 | | Delhi School of Economics | Awarded "in recognition of her contributions as an outstanding analyst of social identities, including tribe and caste, and the politics of knowledge in modern India." |
| 2010 | | Institute of Economic Growth | Awarded "in recognition of her contributions as an outstanding analyst of social and environmental movements in modern India." |
| 2011 | | University of Chicago | Awarded "for his analysis of the complex interaction between financial institutions, governments and people." |
| 2011 | | Center for Policy Research | Awarded "for broadening public discussion of important social, political and economic matters, bringing in heterodox perspectives and for constantly challenging reigning orthodoxies." |
| 2012 | | Indian Statistical Institute | Awarded "for his game-theoretic analyses of mechanism design for implementing social choice rules, when individuals have diverse information and incentives." |
| 2013 | | Nehru Memorial Museum & Library | Awarded "for her distinctive and pioneering research that spans a remarkable range covering four main areas: Agrarian society at the intersection of economy, culture and environment; school education in varied regional contexts; globalization and its impact on the moral economy of urban occupations; and social science as seen from the vantage point of Indian languages and regional cultures." |
| 2014 | | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Awarded "in recognition of her pioneering and prodigious contributions to development economics, with important implications for policies pertaining to the delivery of services to the poor." |
| 2015 | | Center for Policy Research | Awarded "for outstanding research that synthesizes military history, international politics, and strategic analysis into powerful and imaginative perspectives on India in global context." |
| 2016 | | University of Cambridge | Awarded "in recognition of his remarkably deep analysis of the multifaceted role of communities, such as ethnic groups and castes, in the process of economic development." |
| 2017 | | Ambedkar University | Awarded "for his creative scholarship on law and society. His prodigious output in the fields of copyright law, digital technologies and media, and popular culture consistently raises probing questions about the nature of freedom, rights, and social development. His provocative answers link historical context and ethical practice in unexpected and illuminating ways." |
| 2018 | | The University of Chicago Booth School of Business | Awarded "for his path-breaking work in behavioral economics. Mullainathan's research has had substantial impact on diverse fields such as development, public finance, corporate governance and policy design. A significant part of this work is relevant to India. He is currently working on big data and machine learning issues and applications in economics." |
| 2019 | Anand Pandian | Johns Hopkins University | Awarded "for his brilliantly imaginative work on ethics, selfhood and the creative process." |
| 2020 | Raj Chetty | Harvard University | Awarded "for his pioneering research on identifying barriers to economic opportunity and for developing solutions to help people escape from poverty towards better life outcomes." |
| 2021 | Pratiksha Baxi | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India | Awarded for her "pioneering work on sexual violence and jurisprudence." |
| 2022 | Rohini Pande | Yale University | Awarded for her "outstanding research on subjects of key importance, including governance and accountability, women’s empowerment, the role of credit in the lives of the poor, and the environment. Her empirical findings, based on diverse methodologies, offer major promise and potential for policy design in emerging economies, including India." |
| 2023 | Karuna Mantena | Columbia University | Awarded for her "groundbreaking research on the theory of imperial rule, and the claim that this late imperial ideology became one of the important factors in the emergence of modern social theory. " |
| 2024 | Arun Chandrasekhar | Stanford University | Awarded for his "contribution to the study of social and economic networks, using innovative data sets and drawing on theoretical methods from machine learning and computer science. His collection and mapping of networks data, from multiple villages in Karnataka, provides a testbed for studying important questions in development economics." |
| 2025 | Nikhil Agarwal | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Awarded for his "pioneering contributions to market design, including the development and implementation of pathbreaking methodology for empirical studies of allocation mechanisms, including school choice, medical residency, and kidney exchanges. Much of economics assumes that the invisible hand of the market brings about prices where demand equals supply. While this is likely true for apples and oranges, this is not the way those needing kidneys find those willing to supply kidneys, or students seeking college admission find the college that will admit them. These matching problems are hugely important but inadequately understood. Agarwal’s work has transformed this rudimentary literature into one anchored in data, providing new insights into policy design." |